books.google.co.uk - It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinestripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of...https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Right_Turn.html?id=G9iIfyGeJ2sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRight Turn

Right Turn: How the Tories Took Ontario

It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinestripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of Tory rule. These Tories were young, hip, and they were riding the wave of their Common Sense Revolution, a platform launched a year earlier.

Still, there were only a few who thought the PCs stood a chance of winning the Ontario provincial election. Though Bob Rae's NDP government was foundering, Lyn McLeod and the Liberals were holding what looked like a steady two-to-one lead in the polls. Rlying on a combination of video tapes, clever advertising, and a brilliant campaign plan, the Harris team turned it all around, pulling off one of the most stunning upsets in Canadian political history.

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Page 11 - Harris and the steering committee, based on input from the party, decided diey didn't want a statement that focused simply on the short term goal of getting elected, but one which reflected the longer term goal of governing Ontario. The action plans flowing from this mission statement should focus not only on getting elected but on how we will govern after that election,

Page 11 - We will build a safe and prosperous Ontario by adhering to shared values based on individual rights and responsibilities, fairness, and equality of opportunity; governing with responsive, competent, and principled leadership; and implementing innovative, consistent and responsible policies.